Elsa Marie Keefe
HUMAN NATURE
we are the earth
A few recent works below. See other pages for more samples / series.'
*Although my work is primarily categorized as 'fine art', I approach each photograph from a documentary perspective, working with nudists around the world, promoting health and wellness through grounding and connecting with the earth.
I also take on client work of all kinds whenever the opportunity arises, check out the 'client work' section of my website for more information and feel free to reach out with any ideas, needs or desires!
We Are Gods circle 1, 2023, 24x24" (full page for series coming soon, see menu bar for sub-series for NUDES IN NATURE life's work)
Multiplicity of Selves [Pioneertown I.] - 2023, 40x60”, digital photograph,
One of my series is called 'Multiplicity of Selves,' which looks at the multiple personalities or 'sides' of our self that we all experience on the inside and outside. From peace, love and liberation to anger, rage, fear and disillusionment, how many ways do we present ourselves? The intention here is to show the beauty and depth in the multiplicity, the coherence in the chaos.
One of my series is called 'Multiplicity of Selves,' which looks at the multiple personalities or 'sides' of our self that we all experience on the inside and outside. From peace, love and liberation to anger, rage, fear and disillusionment, how many ways do we present ourselves? The intention here is to show the beauty and depth in the multiplicity, the coherence in the chaos.
Color People — 2023 — 40x60” — digital photograph This is part of my series with humans covered in colored hand prints / body paint. I had a vision in a dream over ten years ago of a woman, who may have been myself, and a group of women in front of a waterfall. This is an ongoing subsection of my greater body of work. Body paint has been an accessible way for women and men to pose nude in photographs without feeling extremely vulnerable if they haven't done it before. This image was taken during a new moon women's healing circle and photoshoot during the summer 2023 in the Hudson Valley.
nnervisions - 2023 — 19x13” — digital photograph on archival paper with acrylic paint — [part of 'paint on photos series']
This self-portrait was taken in California in Spring 2023 with cacti, one of my favorite plants to spend time with. I painted this image months later in the snow-covered mountains of Vermont while trying to readjust to nature and isolation. The musician I was staying with gave me two records to look at, one called Innervisions by Stevie Wonder and the other called The Natch'l Blues by Taj Mahal. I studied the imagery on the covers and painted these shapes based on the music playing around me and the colors and shapes on the album covers. Although there may be some controversy with the native shapes that are shared here, we are all native to planet earth.
This self-portrait was taken in California in Spring 2023 with cacti, one of my favorite plants to spend time with. I painted this image months later in the snow-covered mountains of Vermont while trying to readjust to nature and isolation. The musician I was staying with gave me two records to look at, one called Innervisions by Stevie Wonder and the other called The Natch'l Blues by Taj Mahal. I studied the imagery on the covers and painted these shapes based on the music playing around me and the colors and shapes on the album covers. Although there may be some controversy with the native shapes that are shared here, we are all native to planet earth.
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